Prof. Dr. Kuno Hottenrott has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Sports Science at Martin Luther University since 2003, is head of the Training Science & Sports Medicine department and director of the Institute for Performance Diagnostics and Health Promotion (ILUG). He has developed the Master’s programme “Sport and Nutrition”, which is unique in Germany and in great demand. Hottenrott has published more than 20 monographs and more than 200 scientific articles on topics ranging from performance and health sports, sports nutrition, performance diagnostics and autonomous and central nervous control of locomotor movements.

From 2013 to 2017, Hottenrott was President of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs), is a member of ECSS and ACSM. He is an expert on heart rate variability and has coached endurance athletes successfully worldwide. Hottenrott is a passionate endurance athlete with a marathon best time of 2:36 h.